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Word: slicer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy harmony." California-born 51 years ago, Albert Burns invented a lock for Model T Fords, sold 800,000. He worked in a tea and coffee store, directed a chamber of commerce, ran a wholesale business, managed a sanitarium and some textile mills, invented and marketed a successful bread-slicer. He joined the National Inventors Congress in 1928, became its paid president (at $3,600 a year) in 1931. His function is to aid, promote, protect, advise. Mr. Burns is proud when newspapers call him the "Nation's Gadget Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Happy Harmony | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...problem of using light for spectra more efficiently has goaded skygazers for years. Astronomers at Mt. Wilson and California Institute of Technology were putting their money last week on a device called an "image-slicer," invented by Caltech's quiet, brilliant Ira Sprague Bowen. No bigger than a child's fist, this gadget splits up the blobby image of a star or nebula into a number of thin strips by means of a combination of mirrors which feed each one of the strips through the one-thousandth-inch spectroscope slit. After passing through, these slices of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Image-Slicer | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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